How to Keep Water in Central Texas

Long-range planning tries to cover multiple bases, but some say environment is left out

"...Every year brings more people to Central Texas, and with them..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

It Takes a Village

Christine Albert & Chris Gage experience another Austin musical rite of passage: the benefit

"...At the end of 2003, local performer Christine Albert approached..."

April 8, 2005 Music Feature by Christine Albert

The First Time

Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on

"...Everyone remembers their first time, right? How old you were, where you were, who..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...We have been Dreaming the Americas...."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Homage to a Road

"...illustration by Jason Stout In the music of the Southwest,..."

March 19, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

The Producer

Austinite Robert Rodriguez has, of course, been a maverick from the get-go, but it's wife and producer Elizabeth Avellán who often seems the cogent heart and soul behind her husband's outrageously entertaining productions.

"...You've never seen a movie like Once Upon a Time in Mexico, not..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hypnotic

Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck team up for a pulpy mindbender

"...Directed by: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, Hala Finley, Dayo..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Stuck on You

The Farrelly brothers deliver the ultimate buddy movie.

"...Directed by: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shoot 'Em Up

There's not a lot to this action-movie satire other than a seemingly endless fusillade of projectiles and the image of unhinged British gunslinger Clive Owen trading fire with Paul Giamatti.

"...Directed by: Michael Davis. Starring: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gadgets and Gizmos

From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

"...More than any other Texas filmmaker working today, Austin's Robert Rodriguez..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Captive Audience

How a homegrown kidnapping thriller became the most popular film in Venezuela – and angered the Chavez administration in the process

"...Ask Venezuelan filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz about his new film, Secuestro..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

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2003 in Film

"...This year's Top 10 lists, like all lists, are snapshots of..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Powerhouse Animation Assembles Cosmic Stars for Masters of the Universe

Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Henry Rollins join cartoon reboot

"...For a generation of cartoon fans, there's only one true Joker,..."

Feb. 18, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas to Officially Adopt QT

2010 Texas Film Hall of Fame inductees to include one glorious bastard

"...Well, close enough: The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards will make Quentin Tarantino..."

Dec. 21, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVD Extra: Revenge Double Feature

Kurando Mitsutake on bringing Japanese action to the U.S.

"...Revenge. As a Japanese filmmaker working in the U.S., Kurando Mitsutake..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sour Notes For Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez runs into conflict with the Austin musicians' union over scoring his new release.

"...The music stopped this week for Once Upon a Time in Mexico -- or at least..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

La Musica y el Director

Robert Rodriguez adds "composer" to his long list of film credits.

"..."There's a Bermuda triangle, of sorts, close to Madagascar. ..." --..."

July 25, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Del Castillo Live

DVDnds

"...Del Castillo Live(Smilin' Castle) Perhaps you never swam through a sweaty..."

April 9, 2004 Music Review by Belinda Acosta

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...Listen: that noise in the background. Can you hear it? It's..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

'Secuestro Express'

Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on 'Secuestro Express'

"...Last week, just before the film Secuestro Express premiered in..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Michael King

Short Cuts

Tarantino and Rodriguez make beautiful music together, and Ellen Spiro keeps reaching for the stars.

"...El Mariachi Redux Dept.: No one will ever accuse Quentin Tarantino..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Upcoming summer filmmaking activities

"...All Your Workshop Are Belong to Us Dept.: Summer has..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Austin film -- top 10 with a bullet

"...Thirty-One Million, Five Hundred and Thirty-Six Thousand Seconds Dept.: But don't you think it..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Page Two

There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...The Austin film scene was the unavoidably appropriate cover story subject..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...Mad gods, spurting space barbarians and a head full of..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

The Chorus

"...Greg Beets: Contributor, The Austin Chronicle..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Film News

Texas could be like New York

"...Incentive enough to keep Friday Night lit? Texas could be..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Patricia Vonne

"...Patricia Vonne..."

March 18, 2005 Music Review by Margaret Moser

The Birthday Party

They can make movies, but can they cut a cake?

"...(l-r) Mayor Will Wynn, Tim McCanlies, Elizabeth Avellán, Robert Rodriguez, and..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

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